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  • George Eliot

    Whole Soul

    by Ilana M. Blumberg ...
    Series series Spiritual Lives
    The girl who would become George Eliot began her professional writing life with a poem bidding farewell to all books but the Bible. How did a young Christian poet become the great realist novelist whose commitment to religious freethinking made her so iconoclastic that she could not be buried in in Westminster Abbey? Memorialized there today by a stone lain in the Poets' Corner in 1980, George ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • George Eliot

    The Last Victorian (Text Only)

    by Kathryn Hughes ...
    This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England’s last great visionary and the first modern.An immensely readable biography of the 19th century writer whose territory comprised nothing less than the entire span of Victorian society. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    by Leah Price ...
    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Beauty Will Save the World

    Recovering the Human in an Ideological Age

    by Gregory Wolfe ...
    Culture, Not PoliticsWe live in a politicized time. Culture wars and increasingly partisan conflicts have reduced public discourse to shouting matches between ideologues. But rather than merely bemoaning the vulgarity and sloganeering of this era, says acclaimed author and editor Gregory Wolfe, we should seek to enrich the language of civil discourse. And the best way to do that, Wolfe believes, ... Read more

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  • George Eliot

    A Life

    by Rosemary Ashton ...
    This richly enjoyable biography of the great Victorian novelist reminds us how truly revolutionary was George Eliot... [Ashton] provides luminously sane readings of the marvellous novels.' A.N. Wilson, Evening Standard'Excellent... Ashton cites Eliot's achievement in a literary landscape which moves from Scott and George Sand to Dickens, Tennyson and Browning... a fluent, vivid book... it makes ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • An Appetite for Poetry

    by Frank Kermode ...
    Frank Kermode is one of the pre-eminent practitioners of the art of criticism in the English speaking world. It has been his distinction to make a virtue – as all the best critics have done – of the necessarily occasional nature of his profession. That virtue is evident on every page of this collection of essays.In one group of essays he asks the reader to share his pleasure in a number of major ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Life of George Eliot

    A Critical Biography

    by Nancy Henry ...
    Series Book 12 - Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
    The life story of the Victorian novelist George Eliot is as dramatic and complex as her best plots. This new assessment of her life and work combines recent biographical research with penetrating literary criticism, resulting in revealing new interpretations of her literary work.A fresh look at George Eliot's captivating life storyIncludes original new analysis of her writingDeploys the latest ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Age of Doubt: Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty

    by Christopher Lane ...

    $28.99 CAD

  • A Subversive Gospel

    Flannery O'Connor and the Reimagining of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth

    by Michael Mears Bruner ...
    Series series Studies in Theology and the Arts Series
    Conference on Christianity and Literature (CCL) Book of the Year - Literary CriticismThe good news of Jesus Christ is a subversive gospel, and following Jesus is a subversive act.These notions were embodied in the literary work of American author Flannery O'Connor, whose writing was deeply informed by both her Southern context and her Christian faith. In this Studies in Theology and the Arts ... Read more

    $48.26 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Greatness Engendered

    George Eliot and Virginia Woolf

    by Alison Booth ...
    Series series Reading Women Writing
    The egotism that fuels the desire for greatness has been associated exclusively with men, according to one feminist view; yet many women cannot suppress the need to strive for greatness. In this forceful and compelling book, Alison Booth traces through the novels, essays, and other writings of George Eliot and Virginia Woolf radically conflicting attitudes on the part of each toward the ... Read more

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  • George Eliot (Authors in Context)

    by Tim Dolin ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    In a landmark essay, Virginia Woolf rescued George Eliot from almost four decades of indifference and scorn when she wrote of the 'searching power and reflective richness' of Eliot's fiction. Novels such as Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss reflect Eliot's complex and sometimes contradictory ideas about society, the artist, the role of women, and the interplay of science and religion. In this ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land

    Edited by Gabrielle McIntire ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land is often considered to be the most important poem written in English in the twentieth century. The poem dramatically shattered old patterns of form and style, proposed a new paradigm for poetry and poetic thought, demanded recognition from all literary quarters, and changed the ways in which it was possible to approach, read, or write poetry. The Waste Land helped to ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD